Windows: Rather than opening Notepad, going to the File menu to save it, then browsing to a specific folder, you can more quickly create a text file in your chosen folder by right-clicking then hitting W and then T.

The right-click > W > T shortcut eliminates the need to open Notepad first. It will create a text document ready for file naming and then all you have to do is hit Enter to open the text document for editing (hit CTRL+S to save your changes and you've got a very streamlined text-document-creating workflow).

Shortcut ninja Adam Pash uses this all the time to create text docs everywhere, but I learned this trick from Lifehacker reader KayDat in last week's Alt+double-click shortcut thread (thanks, KayDat!). What are your favorite Windows shortcuts?